Quotes About Aspiration

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

It's always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.